Quentin Barnes has updated the Catweasel Utilities to v4.10
New to this release are:
- Add -S option. This option allows the user to specify a minimum number of sectors per track and side. If that minimum is not reached during a read, it’ll trigger a retry.
- Extend the -x and -X option argument syntax when specifying a track range to also allow giving sides.
- Add partial support for RX02 in dmk2jv3.
The -S is a feature that I find to be a necessary evil. Many disks with issues can erroneously report an end of track data before all the retries are finished, and CW2DMK would then decide “Oh, OK – then this track is 7 good sectors” when it really is “7 good, 11 bad” that was just mishandled. With this, you can make a second pass that FORCES CW2DMK to keep re-reading until it either gets 18 good sectors or the retry count expires.
A ZIP file with the DOS, Linux, and Source Code can be downloaded here.
The main GITHUB can found at https://github.com/qbarnes/cw2dmk/.